Lelouch is a self-taught director who financed, directed, edited and acted in his first films. He achieved his first success with his fifth feature film
A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme, 1966), which won the Golden Palm and an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Film. His other films include
And Now My Life (Toute une vie, 1974),
Live For Life (Vivre pour vivre, 1967),
The Crook (Le voyou, 1970),
Money Money Money (L’aventure c’est l’aventure, 1972),
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (Un homme et une femme:20 ans déja, 1986),
Far From Vietman (Loin du Vietnam, 1967), which he made together with Godard, Resnais and others,
Life Love Death (La vie, l’amour, la mort, 1969),
A Man I Like (Un homme qui me plaît, 1970),
An Adventure for Two (A nous deux, 1979),
Long Live Life (Viva la vie!, 1984),
Les misérables (1995) based on Victor Hugo’s novel.